Original Texts


Most of the stories we publish at Cyclopean Tales were written between 1830 and 1930, and so their copyrights have lapsed and the works have reverted to the public domain. To source the text for these stories we rely mainly on Project Gutenberg, Archive. org and other confirmed authoritative versions of the text. Details of the licence conditions for individual stories can be checked here: Project Gutenberg License

Introductions and Annotations

Our contribution to the classic fiction we publish and discuss is the contextual introductions, notes and annotations that accompany our publications. We take care to ensure that all additional material is sourced using recognised, peer-reviewed sources, including the Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, the Oxford English Dictionary, JSTOR and recognised contributors of contextual information relating to authors, contemporary history and literary criticism of the works.

For our series of fiction referenced by the author H.P. Lovecraft in his essay Supernatural Horror in Literature, we rely on texts available online from Donovan K. Loucks’ excellent H.P. Lovecraft Archive.

We also reference the standard edition of Lovecraft’s works edited by Lovecraftian critic S.T. Joshi, as well as The Weird Tale, Joshi’s examination of the works of five “founding fathers” of the weird tale genre: Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, and H.P. Lovecraft. We also reference Joshi’s bibliographies of Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, and William Hope Hodgson.

Finally, we often reference other noted sources, including literary blogs and podcasts dedicated to weird fiction authors, and H. P. Lovecraft and his influences.

Our written annotations and introductions are our own work and thus copyrighted to us; please contact us if you wish to reuse them elsewhere.

Images

The images used on this site are a mixture of personal images (copyright retained by Cyclopean Tales), and free-to-use and Wikimedia-sourced images.

As with our texts, we try our best to credit images correctly, but please let us know if you spot a mistake, and we will be happy to correct the attribution.

If you wish to reuse one of the personal images from the site, please contact us, as we are usually happy to oblige! The pictures were taken on our travels around the world, and most have a naturally occurring structure or architectural (maybe even a cyclopean!) theme.